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we have seen anything but that really over the fights over the spending cuts and the tax hikes. do you expect this type of relationship, we'll call it that, between the president and congress to continue? >> i do think there will be that antagonism. we have to be realistic about that. i also think there are certain republicans who understand that while the president has to build a legacy, this is also about republican legacy. what kind of party do they want to be in the next four years? do they just want to continue to be the party of the permanent majority in the house, which can obstruct or do they want to focus on how you build towards being a party that can actually win the white house? this is where i think immigration reform comes in. that is a big first step for republicans to show that they understand, especially to the growing latino community, what they need to do in order to bring them in and, frankly, in order to build a path towards winning the white house in 2016 or even beyond. if they don't do that. if they don't focus on trying to figure out a way to get immigra
we have seen anything but that really over the fights over the spending cuts and the tax hikes. do you expect this type of relationship, we'll call it that, between the president and congress to continue? >> i do think there will be that antagonism. we have to be realistic about that. i also think there are certain republicans who understand that while the president has to build a legacy, this is also about republican legacy. what kind of party do they want to be in the next four years?...
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. >> guns, tax and immigration. the president signals a second term with more bite than bipartisanship. the tone and the task with senior obama adviser are david plouffe. the republican take with wyoming senator john barrasso, head of the gop policy committee. also, spotlight on the inaugural speech with presidential wordhs
. >> guns, tax and immigration. the president signals a second term with more bite than bipartisanship. the tone and the task with senior obama adviser are david plouffe. the republican take with wyoming senator john barrasso, head of the gop policy committee. also, spotlight on the inaugural speech with presidential wordhs
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. >> guns, tax and immigration. the president signals a second term with more bite than bipartisanship. the tone and the task with senior obama adviser are david plouffe. the republican take with wyoming senator john barrasso, head of the gop policy committee. also, spotlight on the inaugural speech with presidential wordsmiths don bayer and michael guesten and the party lines with former wisconsin senator russ feingold, new england, susan page and ron brownstein. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> good morning on an historic sunday here in washington, d.c. president obama will take the oath of office for his second term after this morning in a private ceremony at the white house. the constitution requires that he be sworn in by noon, january 20th. vice president joe biden was sworn in a short time ago, justice sonia sotomayor administering the oath. the president and vice president have just arrived at arlington national cemetery where they will place a wreath at the tomb of the unknown of. we
. >> guns, tax and immigration. the president signals a second term with more bite than bipartisanship. the tone and the task with senior obama adviser are david plouffe. the republican take with wyoming senator john barrasso, head of the gop policy committee. also, spotlight on the inaugural speech with presidential wordsmiths don bayer and michael guesten and the party lines with former wisconsin senator russ feingold, new england, susan page and ron brownstein. i'm candy crowley and...
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higher estate tax rate. but it could have been worse. >> i think that the wealthy got off pretty easily here. there's a modest tax increase for the very wealthiest in this society, a very tiny percentage. i, frankly, that there are more taxes coming and they're going to bite more deeply into the middle class. >> approximately two-thirds of american will pay more taxes. the tax bite for the middle class comes from the end of payroll tax cut, which wasn't renewed in the fiscal cliff deal. but whatever happened to comprehensive tax reform? >> the irs tax code is still a nightmare. it's too complex, too costly, and too unfair. >> reporter: both sides say they're open to simplifying the tax code. more than 70,000 pages in 2012. the u.s. government gives away more than $1 trillion a year in tax breaks, but republicans say reform isn't about squeezing more money out of taxpayers. >> i think tax reform is a good idea, but now that we have resolved the revenue issue, tax reform ought to be revenue neutral, as it was
higher estate tax rate. but it could have been worse. >> i think that the wealthy got off pretty easily here. there's a modest tax increase for the very wealthiest in this society, a very tiny percentage. i, frankly, that there are more taxes coming and they're going to bite more deeply into the middle class. >> approximately two-thirds of american will pay more taxes. the tax bite for the middle class comes from the end of payroll tax cut, which wasn't renewed in the fiscal cliff...
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what i said was we weren't going to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthy. and we didn't. >> joining me now, john king, john king, welcome, welcome. help me understand what exactly the president is saying. is he saying he absolutely will not negotiate with congress when it comes to the debt ceiling? and to point out, i had ben stein on, an economist. he said, brooke, saying not negotiating is a negotiating tact tactic. >> ben is correct in that regard. what the president is saying, he's not going to repeat two years ago. he did get involved in detailed negotiations and the president, in that same news conference, said if the republicans feel they have to have some package of spending cuts to go with raising the debt ceiling, then let them put their own plan together and see if they can get the votes in congress. he's not going to help them. he said he was not going to let the republicans put a gun to the head of the american people, or he was not going to let them attach a ransom. the president used tough language today and part of what he was saying is i wo
what i said was we weren't going to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthy. and we didn't. >> joining me now, john king, john king, welcome, welcome. help me understand what exactly the president is saying. is he saying he absolutely will not negotiate with congress when it comes to the debt ceiling? and to point out, i had ben stein on, an economist. he said, brooke, saying not negotiating is a negotiating tact tactic. >> ben is correct in that regard. what the president is saying,...
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but there's a road to citizenship that you are able to go on if you pay your back taxes, if you have a criminal investigation, you find out there's no crimes, no serious crimes. and you get at the end of the line. but there has to be a path. three, we've got to have family unity as a central core of any policy. you can't deport the parents and leave their 5 million kids here. there are 2 million dreamers. so those are some of the elements of wa we talked about, and i know that the president supports those core elements. we expect there will be bipartisan support for that, as well. >> can you give us a sense of the timing on this? when will we see these plans. >> it's going to depend on the congress, as well. i expect in the next month you'll see these proposals, certainly already, senator mccain and graham and in len dez and others are working together to come up with a comprehensive package. remember, there's been some movement from the republicans as a result of the election. i think they're going to want do it on a bipartisan basis. >> go back to guns for a minute. you listed thin
but there's a road to citizenship that you are able to go on if you pay your back taxes, if you have a criminal investigation, you find out there's no crimes, no serious crimes. and you get at the end of the line. but there has to be a path. three, we've got to have family unity as a central core of any policy. you can't deport the parents and leave their 5 million kids here. there are 2 million dreamers. so those are some of the elements of wa we talked about, and i know that the president...